Feeding and Marketing from Kansas City, Kansas • 3

s- n- OlrV niltf MAtKITtNO (J rows, thea while the potatoes are being dug the corn Is sprouting. CONSPICUOUS BOA8TINQ. 3vJ3 Formerly The 8tofck Yard Nugget. Published Weekly by The Stockmen's or suir Drusn. Alter rinsing in clean tepid water the harness is hung up to drain a little while before oiling.

For driving harness, neatsfoot oil or castor oil is best, but for heavy harness there may be some tallow in the oil. The applications should be light for driving and liberal for heavy harness. The oil, warm to the hand, is rubbed thoroughly into the leather while it is still wet from the washing. Excess oil which the leather is unable to take up, should be removed with a clean, dry cloth. fuDiisning co.

martindale, Editor. Publishing Co. owner, who should be privileged to receive the advance in price, if it should be found that demand was such' that its relation to supply war-ranted a higher price. Then the warehouse man would receive pay for the only service he renders, tnat of providing storage for the grain until it is needed by the consumer. We hear men rail at the middleman but as a rule he is not a speculator, and while keen merchandising may sense the trend of prices and profit thereby, his business is not that of hoarding but to get the products into the hands of the consumer and secure something for his service.

Controlling the wheat situation and giving free rein to speculation in corn looks like robbing Peter to pay Paul. Council Bluffs Nonpareil. One sunny day in May, Mrs. O'Toole went shopping in the town. As she drove along, her heart light and Joyous, she caught sight of a notice conspicuously displayed in a cottage window.

It bore the announcement: "Washing and ironing done." Mrs. O'Toole read it several times. vThen she drew herself up haughtily and sniffed. "Shure," said she, "that ain't anything to boast about! It's mesilf as had me washin' and ironin' done and put away since yisterday, but I don't hang out no braggin' sign about it!" ECONOMY VS. CONSERVATION.

PLANT A FALL FOOD ACRE. A. J. Roberts, Circulation Mgr. A Weekly Live Stock, Market.

Agricultural end Home Newspaper, published each Wednesday at 14 Orvllle Avenue, Kansas City, Kan. Ivertlslng Manager's Phone, Home Main 71M. Subscription price, $1.00 per year. Entered as aecond-class matter at the Poetottlce at KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, under the Act of March 1879. We guarantee to stop FEEDING AND MARKBTINa Immediately upon expiration of your subscription.

Tou need anticipate no attempt of ours to force the PPftT upon you or collect for issues not auDjioribed for. Communications are solicited from practical farmers and feeders. Names and addresses must accompany all communications, although they need not necessarily be published. Photographs of farm and feeding scenes are gladly received, and will be reproduced if of general interest, and clear enough to make satisfactory plates. Questions Subscribers are at liberty to ask questions on any phase of agricultural work, which will be answered as pjroxnptly and carefully aa possible, either through the paper or by malL When writing for information, always give name and poatofflce, and enclose a two-cent stamp.

All correspondence should be directed to the paper and not to any individual connected with it WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1917. ECONOMY IN LEATHER. The school teacher needed a few plums to assist her in giving an object lesson, and requested Willie to purchase them at the market. "Before you pay the man," she cautioned, "pinch one or two to see if they are ripe." Willie returned with a smiling face, and proudly deposited a bag of plums on the teacher's desk. "Thank you, dear," said the teacher.

"Did you pinch them to make sure they were ripe?" "Did was the gleeful answer. "I pinched the whole bagful, and.here Is the sixpence!" If ambition is the main spring of human clockwork, will someone please tell us how to wind it up? Do not forget the fall food acre. Secure from your county agent the plan for planting crops on one acre for food for the family and feed for the live stock. In dry territory where the hot winds have prevented corn production, cut and remove the stalks from the field in August and prepare the land for small grain and cover crops. Clean up pastures and meadows by cutting the brush and weeds.

This will improve the grazing this season and destroy harmful seeds maturing to cause trouble next season. August is a good time to put tools and machinery in shape for next season. They should all be well housed, painted and oiled to prevent damage. In August begin the preparation for fall and winter crops. Select the locations best suited to the different crops to be planted.

Get your seed and fertilizer on hand ready to be used. These terms are often used, one for the other, when the meaning is confused. For instance we economize when we stint ourselves, deny ourselves of things that we want and need. We thus save upon our expense account. Conservation means saving every particle of waste, and in making the most possible out of products at hand.

The best illustration of conservation' is the operation of a modem packing house where every particle of the animal is used in some manner. The last word in conservation in the packing house is of course the fertilizer department, where all refuse is made into fertilizer. However, when by scientifically and carefully taking off a hide, the packer produces a hide worth 32 cents because it is not cut up, scored, and a farmer carelessly takes off a hide, cut holes in it, is careless about handling it, and the hide he has to sell is worth only about 15 cents per pound, he has wantonly destroyed half the value of the hide. His act is the opposite of conservation. Further, if by treating your soil to a liberal application of fertilizer, whether it be manure or commercial fertilizer, you can double your crop yield with no more labor and expense, you are a conservator in the fullest sense of the word.

If a farmer raises 10 bushels of wheat to the acre without fertilizer, and by spending $5 per acre on enriching his soil and he produces 30 bushels per acre, he has not only performed a useful service to mankind, but he has greatly increased his profits. So the great lesson to be thorough-lv learned is conservation and increased production. It is the salvation of the world in this great crisis. It is all right for us to economize, but conservation is the all important problem to be Conserve and increase production. The great end of instruction is not to stamp our minds on the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own.

Channing. KEEP THE LAND AT WORK. Hog Cholera Controlled Let us not this season as we so often do wast all the work of cultivation we give to the early vegetable crops, by letting the land grow up in grass and weeds as the crops ripen, says the Progressive Farmer. But rather let us keep the tools of cultivation running a little later, then without further working of the land, plant other crops that will mature better in the fall or during the winter. Late corn, turnips, parsnips, rye, oats, may well follow the early potato crop or the land may be seeded to grass, clover or alfalfa at little extra expense, and these crops go in under almost ideal conditions.

Good land is required to produce fine crops of Irish potatoes and it will be almost a sin this year to let rich land that is already in good seed bed condition grow up in wild grass and weeds. We often work the potato land just as the plants are maturing and plant corn between the using our high potency, standard 20 c. c. dose serum. Our pries to you, 2c per c.

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2. Kansas City, or Stock Yards, Cincinnati, Ohio. CORN PRICES AND THE HOG War demands leather leather for soldiers' shoes, leather for harness, leather for equipment of many kinds. In this country there is no such surplus that we can afford to waste any of it; and it is wasting leather not to care for and preserve it properly. In the army and out, we all wear shoes.

If we manage them rightly they will last longer, we will not need so many new ones, and there will be more left for others. The following suggestions from the leather and paper laboratory of the United States department of agriculture can be utilized by everyone who walks. Shoes should be oiled or greased whenever the leather begins to get hard or dry. They should be brushed thoroughly, and then all the dirt and mud that remains should be washed off with warm water, the excess wa- ter being taken offwith a dry cloth. While the shoes are still wet and warm apply the oil or grease with a swab of wool or flannel.

It is best to have the oil or grease about as warm as the hand can bear, and it should be rubbed well into the leather, preferably with the palm. If necessary, the oil can be applied to dry leather, but it penetrates better when the leather is wet. After treatment, the shoes should be left to dry in a place that is warm not hot. Castor oil is satisfactory for shoes that are to be polished; for plainer footgear, neatsfoot oil, fish oil, or oleine may be substituted. If it is desired to make the shoes and boots more waterproof, beef tallow may be added to any of these substances, at the rate of half a pound of tallow to a pint of oil.

The edge of the sole and the welt should be greased thoroughly. Too much grease can not be applied to these parts. A simple method of making the soles more durable, pliable and water-resistant is to swab them occasionally with linseed oil, setting them aside to dry overnight. Many of the common shoe polishes are harmful to leather. All those which contain sulphuric, hydrochloric or oxalic acid, turpentine, benzine or other volatile solvents, have a tendency to harden the leather and make it more liable to crack.

It is poor economy, also, to wear a shoe with the heel badly worn on one side. This throws the shoe out of shape, and may soon result in its ruin. It is also likely to cause temporary injury to the foot. Harness leather, like shoes, can not be neglected without injury that lessens its durability. It should be washed and oiled frequently.

The washing should be done in tepid water, with a neutral soap and a sponge If one reads the debate on the food conservation measure he must get the impression that congress has gained the idea that the wheat situation controls the entire food question in this country. It appears that it has been decided that if a minimum price is fixed on $2 per bushel it will stimulate production to such an extent that the food question will be as good as settled. No attention is being paid, to other cereals or the effect of speculation in them. Yet if we stop to think, it is conceivable that other food industries quite as important are endangered. Since speculation in wheat has been decried, attention apparently has been turned to corn.

Saturday it sold for more than $2.25 a bushel. If theprice keeps up to this figure it will endanger the entire pork industry. In order to come out even feeding $2 corn to hogs the farmer must get not less than $20 per hundred pounds for the hog on the hoof. It would not be profitable feeding at that Farmers xvill sell their corn to the speculator at $2 per bushel rather than take a chance at feeding pigs for less than $20 per hundred weight, and the pork at $20 per hundred means prices that are prohibitive to the consumer. It means that the pork industry may be ruined.

Trading in grain futures ought to be stopped and instead of allowing great elevator companies to buy and store grains for the purpose of manipulating prices, the grain business should be reduced to a simple process of merchandising. Warehouse receipts good for a minimum price guaranteed by the government for a certain period, should be issued to the tjm You Gel a Better Price Bj3 We send shipping tags on request..